Cryptography for Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing

Rass (computer science, Alpen-Adria U., Austria) and Slamanig (applied information processing and communication, Graz U. of Technology, Austria) describe various cryptographic methods to improve security and privacy in cloud computing, warning readers that this is a very new and very dynamic area that is changing rapidly. Their focus is on nonstandard techniques of security and cryptography, and they skip much of the underlying mathematics for the sake of clarity and compactness. They cover fundamentals, the protection of identifying information, privacy-enhanced encryption, remote data storage, and practical issues. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)